The British Army of August 1914
Subtitle: An Illustrated Directory
Publisher: Spellmount Publishers
Published: April 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781862272071
Subjects: European history: First World War; Regiments; First World War, 1914-1918; Military - World War I; History; History - Military / War; Military; Europe; United Kingdom, Great Britain
Description: "This book is a directory that performs the task of recording, for the first time, not only a comprehensive listing of every unit in existence at the outbreak of war in August 1914, Regulars, Special Reserve, Territorials, OTC, Cadets etc. - but also their locations. This, in the case of Territorial Force units, being not only that of Regimental/Brigade/Battalion/Squadron Headquarters, but those of individual Batteries/Companies and outlying drill stations." "The illustrations of course, being personally selected from the many thousand available from the author's internationally known archive, are second to none. The British Army of August 1914 is a reference for all historians - military, local, family, professional, amateur - and will long serve as a fitting commemoration to the men and regiments that formed the backbone of the later much enlarged British Army."--BOOK JACKET.